Gave it a 5. Basically the episode in itself was fun viewing, did well with the suspense in portraying the AOTD as a near unstoppable army and that humanity looked doomed to survive. So good horror sections and the dragon fight would have been cool if I could see but the story part made no sense and essentially made the proceeding seven seasons look pointless. Everything they told up to now ended up being pretty much useless.
I also had higher hopes going into this battle a few seasons back, it should really have been the last battle where everything was resolved. We should have seen Ghost actually fight, Naemeria turn up for the save with its pack on wolves, hell a Ghost v Zombie Summer fight would have been the perfect way to cap of the dogs story.
The WW''s should have went in to this with their full story told, why they were there, what they wanted to achieveand why they wished to kill Bran who in the full eight series has done anything to show that he is of any danger to them.
Clegane bowl on the battlefield, Mountain is a zombie anyway and they could have sided them up only for them to let their hatred of each other override what they are actually fighting for. I ultimately think they did it the wrong way round but we'll see. Have Dany win the throne only for it to seem like a waste of time when humanity could be wiped out in an instant, they go to battle, win but the skin of their teeth and emerge rulers of a destroyed kingdom because they let their pettiness and lust for power over one another overshadow the real importance for living.
We did get the dragon battle I guess.
Oh and Jon should have slayed the NK, its the obvious choice but sometimes when you've had seven series oif build to that moment its nice to get the actual payoff instead of some M Night Shaymalan twist just for the sake of surprise.
So brilliant in terms of an actual viewing spectacle and suspense driven horror episode but utterly terrible in terms of story, paying off the series and ending character arcs. They balance each other out for straight down the middle 5/10.
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